Word: villains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judas. Guido Mayr, hale, clever woodcarver, is to be villain for the second time. But Johann Zwink, who played the role several times, will continue to be missed whether Mayr is good or bad. For Zwink, a mellow, watery-eyed, lovable ancient, now exceedingly poor, is considered by many in the village to have been the best character actor that Oberammergau ever had. His was naturally a Judas face. Because his spirit was quite otherwise, he used to rehearse his part by walking about town, mumbling imprecations in his beard against the Christ until he almost believed them, became suicidally...
...defend himself, is to be blackened his affairs hawked about the streets." The Editor "It's hardly as simple as that. We do want to sell our paper, of course. A Press that doesn't pay its way can't live. But if there's a villain in the piece, it's the public, Lady Morecombe...
Death came to Author Jesse Lynch Williams last September. He left this book, a quietly satirical study of religious dogmatism. Greatly daring, Author Williams has made his dogmatist-villain a woman, and a beauty...
...first scene is in the hall outside Room No. 349 in the Royal Hotel. Several people seemed interested in doing away with Hero Harold Stromberg when suddenly comes the report of a revolver. Next scene occurs in the fatal room itself with Mr. Stromberg?acted by cinema villain Roy D'Arcy (The Merry Widow) ?lying near death from a gunshot wound. Grouped about him are his henchmen and his beauteous blonde girl-friend Babette Marshall, whose part is taken by the suntanned companion of the late Gambler Rothstein, Inez Norton, a stroke of showmanship calculated...
...humorous, faulty. The detective is no Sherlock Holmes but a hard-working policeman who has to satisfy the district attorney, then out of sympathy and professional pride helps Miss Bell demolish the case he has made. But there is a murderer. If it were not for Author Rinehart, the villain might never have been discovered...